§ 86-4.014. Height limits.  


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  • Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no structure or tree shall be erected, altered, allowed to grow, or maintained in any airport approach zone, airport turning zone, or airport transition zone to a height greater than the height limit established in this section for that zone. For the purpose of this regulation, the following height limits are established for each zone:

    (1)

    Approach Zones Nos. one, two, three, and four shall have a maximum height limit of twenty feet at a distance of one thousand feet from the end of the runway. The maximum allowable height shall be increased in step-ups of five feet each for every two hundred foot segment added to the one thousand foot distance from the end of the runway, to a maximum height of one hundred fifty feet.

    (2)

    Approach Zones Nos. five and six shall have a maximum height limit of twenty feet at a distance of six hundred feet from the end of the runway. The maximum allowable height shall be increased in step-ups of five feet each for every hundred foot segment added to the six hundred foot distance from the end of the runway, to a maximum height of one hundred fifty feet.

    (3)

    All turning zones shall have a maximum height limit of one hundred fifty feet, except that portion of the turning zone marked on the Airport Zoning Plan for Buchanan Field, Contra Costa County, California, as "not included in turning zone."

    (4)

    All transition zone areas shall have the maximum height limit indicated on the airport zoning plan for Buchanan Field, Contra Costa County, California.

(Prior code § 8214: Ord. 976).